cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.python.mk ports/lang/python Makefile ports/lang/python24 Makefile pkg-plist ports/lang/python24/files patch-setup.py ports/lang/python25 Makefile pkg-plist ports/lang/python25/files patch-setup.py

[Hye-Shik Chang]

On 10/13/06, Hye-Shik Chang <perky at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:36:15AM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Hye-Shik Chang wrote:
> >
> > > Log:
> > > Revert the default version of Python to 2.4 for the ports freeze
> > > period.  Python 2.5 brought a vast range of incompatibility to a
> > > large number of ports, so the python@ team will do more basic
> > > compatibility work in a private repository and merge it later.
> > > Sorry for the inconvenience.
> > Although I have got about 800 ports installed nothing serious has
> > happened after the Python upgrade.
> > Is there some knob to keep python 2.5 as default?
> >
>
> You can use PYTHON_VERSION=2.5 in your /etc/make.conf.  The most
> python ports will use 2.5 by default then.  But you must execute
> ${PREFIX}/bin/python2.5 insteand of ${PREFIX}/bin/python, still.

Sorry. PYTHON_VERSION=python2.5 is correct.  :-)


> Hye-Shik